America
"No other people have a government more worthy of their
respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so
pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion
to enterprise and labor."
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/benjamin_harrison/
Being President
I have often thought that the life of the President is like that of the
policeman in the opera, not a happy one.
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271895/quotes
Columbus
Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and
achievement. The system of universal education is in our age the
most prominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment,
and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the
people the center of the day's demonstration. Let the national flag
float over every school-house in the country, and the exercises be
such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of
American citizenship.
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http:http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors
/benjamin_harrison_a001.htm
Deep Things
"Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest
upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must
not be confounded with heart failure."
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/benjamin_harrison/
Election Night
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I
were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I
thought a night's rest was best in any event.
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/benjamin_harrison.html
Family
I have only a vague memory of my grandfather as I was only a child
when he died but I will show all my family's famous name is safe
in my keeping.
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271895/quotes
I want to avoid everything that is personal and I want it understood that
I am grandson of nobody.
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271895/quotes
Funny
I do the same thing every day. I eat three meals, sleep six hours
and read dusty old books the rest of the time. My life is about as
devoid of anything funny as the great desert is of grass.
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271895/quotes
God's Commission
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
Source:1888 address to Congress
Law
The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice
it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a
safe protector…. But we must not forget that we take these gifts upon the
condition that justice and mercy shall hold the reins of power and that the upward
avenues of hope shall be free to all the people.
Benjamin Harrison, Monday, 4 March 1889
Source:http://dreamhopereality.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/quotations-for-
tuesday-10-january-2012-james-a-garfield-grover-cleveland-and-benjamin-harrison/
Lifes
"Great lives never go out; they go on."
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/benjamin_harrison/
Labor
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who
produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/benjamin_harrison.html
Rich and Poor
"The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor
man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to
despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a
man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters
by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon
another what he has not earned."
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/benjamin_harrison/
Truth
"The bud of victory is always in the truth."
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/benjamin_harrison/
Wife
After the heavy blow of the death of my wife, I do not think that I could
have stood re-election.
Benjamin Harrison
Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271895/quotes
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